Inga crossota is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Walsingham in 1912.[1] It is found in Guatemala and Mexico.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Oecophorinae |
| Genus: | Inga |
| Species: | I. crossota
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| Binomial name | |
| Inga crossota (Walsingham, 1912)
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The wingspan is 24–27 mm. The forewings are ochreous, with a rosy flesh-like tinge, which becomes very narrowly rich salmon-red along the costa and termen, fading out toward the base. There is a slender purplish line, leaving the costa at three-fourths from the base, curves outward, running roughly parallel to the termen and reverting, with a slight bend on the fold, to the dorsum before the tornus. There are a few scales of the same colour forming an indistinct cloud across the end of the cell, and a minute fuscous dot occurs on the middle of the cell at a little less than one-third from the base. There is also a black spot at the base of the costa. The hindwings are bright yellowish ochreous, tinged with rosy flesh-colour toward the apex.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Machimia crossota". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ Inga at funet
- ^ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 125
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